XP wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:34:11 +1300, JC <> wrote:
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>>What is the general opinion on Open Office version 2?
>>For a free Office suite, I love it.
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> Some reviews states its a CPU hog and a Resource Hog..
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Should be right at home running on Windows XP then.

JC wrote:
> What is the general opinion on Open Office version 2?
> For a free Office suite, I love it.

I've had a good play with the spreadsheet side of things, and despite
the way that works being a little different to excel I find it quite
useful now...

The presentation program and word processor do what they're expected
too, and the speed of startup compared to v1.x has improved at least
for me. You can use OpenOffice Quickstarter in KDE/linux to preload
some core parts of O which speeds up loading even further...

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:34:11 +1300, JC wrote:
> What is the general opinion on Open Office version 2?
> For a free Office suite, I love it.

It looks good, functionality is superb.
But I'm running into one fairly annoying problem using it on windows 2000.
Seems periodically when I'm just moving my cursor around (using Write),
Open office will just suddenly stop responding and then a few seconds later
drastically slow down the whole system with it, until I can get to the Task
manager and kill the process. Strangely enough, my CPU remains at 1-5%
indicating that the CPU isn't getting maxed out so it's possibly something
else.
I've updated the drivers on my system, updated the Java runtime, did the
usual like spyware scan but doesn't seem to resolve it. Seems to be a
recent problem so it could have been an errant windows update.

Appears to work superbly on my Ubuntu install though. Could be some
motivation to totally convert to Linux as I will concede that my windows
2000 install is (almost) last century.

GraB wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:34:11 +1300, JC <> wrote:
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>>What is the general opinion on Open Office version 2?
>>For a free Office suite, I love it.
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> I am still running 1.9.118. Seems great. Doesn't seem to be a
> resource hog. Is it worth getting the latest version? Is that much
> better than this version?

all the default data file types have changed in 2.0, this isn't well handled in
my debian system

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